Nigel Davies (historian)
Nigel Davies | |
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| Member of Parliament for Epping | |
| In office 23 February 1950 – 5 October 1951 | |
| Preceded by | Leah Manning |
| Succeeded by | Graeme Finlay |
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| Born | 2 September 1920 |
| Died | 25 September 2004 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | anthropologist, historian, MP and soldier |
Dr. Claude Nigel Byam Davies (2 September 1920 – 25 September 2004) was a British anthropologist and historian who specialised in the study of the cultures of pre-Columbian America, publishing 12 academic works on the
and as the managing director of Windowlite Ltd.Life
Born in September 1920 to Claude and Nellie Davies,Graeme Bell Finlay.
Davies subsequently entered academia, achieving a
Incas of South America and in particular the Toltecs, the pre-Aztec people of Central Mexico. His works were well received and are now standard references.[1] Davies never married and later retired to live in Tijuana, dying in September 2004.[2]
Works
- Los Señoríos Independientes del Imperio Azteca, 1968.
- Los Mexicas: primeros pasos hacia el imperio, 1973.
- The Aztecs: a history, 1973.
- The Toltecs: until the fall of Tula, 1976.
- Before Columbus Came, 1976.
- Voyagers to the New World, fact and fantasy, 1979
- The Toltec Heritage: from the fall of Tula to the rise of Tenochtitlan, 1980.
- Human Sacrifice, in history and today, 1981.
- The Ancient Kingdoms of Mexico, 1983.
- The Rampant God: Eros throughout the world, 1984.
- The Aztec Empire: the Toltec resurgence, 1987.
- The Incas, 1995.
- The Ancient Kingdoms of Peru, 1997.
Notes
- ^ a b Nigel (Byam) Davies Archived 27 September 2003 at the Wayback Machine, Minnesota State University, retrieved 8 November 2008
- ^ Who Was Who, (subscription required), retrieved 8 November 2008
- ^ "No. 34719". The London Gazette. 27 October 1939. p. 7250.
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